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Synonyms for endearing


Grammar : Adj
Spell : en-deer-ing
Phonetic Transcription : ɛnˈdɪər ɪŋ



Définition of endearing

Origin :
  • 1660s, present participle adjective from endear. Related: Endearingly.
  • adj lovable
Example sentences :
  • To be familiar and endearing with them all—and so make me mad with envying them.
  • Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens
  • Nor is it, as has been too often supposed, a cheerless life of toil and fatigue, but has many substantial and endearing charms.
  • Extract from : « Address delivered by Hon. Henry H. Crapo, Governor of Michigan, before the Central Michigan Agricultural Society, at their Sheep-shearing Exhibition held at the Agricultural College Farm, on Thursday, May 24th, 1866 » by Henry Howland Crapo
  • Lydia caught at the endearing word, and something like a spasm moved her face.
  • Extract from : « The Prisoner » by Alice Brown
  • The endearing term came for the first time from the man's lips.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 » by Various
  • This is the most endearing word that one human being can use to another.
  • Extract from : « George Bowring - A Tale Of Cader Idris » by R. D. Blackmore
  • As I was the youngest of the party, he received me with the most endearing familiarity.
  • Extract from : « Ernest Linwood » by Caroline Lee Hentz
  • "My Duchess" was the endearing title at the top of the page.
  • Extract from : « The Greater Love » by George T. McCarthy
  • She would not have dared to teach her children these endearing ways.
  • Extract from : « 'Our guy' » by Mrs. E. E. Boyd
  • Then he put his arm round her with an endearing word or two.
  • Extract from : « Lover or Friend » by Rosa Nouchette Carey
  • She began to sob and called him by all sorts of endearing names.
  • Extract from : « Original Short Stories, Volume 10 (of 13) » by Guy de Maupassant

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